Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 03/09/2026👀 forward to the next MorphoBank newsletter 🍂☕📖 000
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDGraduate Women in Science (GWIS) @gwis-national.bsky.social · 06/04/2026🚨 Registration is OPEN for the 2026 GWIS National Conference! 🚨 🗓 6/13/26 📍 South Dakota School of Mines & Technology 💡 Free to attend (meals included!) 📣 Abstracts due 4/30 🎟 Register by 5/11 👉 Register & submit your abstract: lnkd.in/ezk9BsiE #GWIS 021
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 07/04/2026📣SAVE THE DATE! MorphoBank Connects is back for it's 2nd year, Sept 17 & 18 2026 🧪 Mark your calendar and join us for a free virtual conference featuring discussion, presentations, workshops & more! #evolutionarybiology #openaccess #opendata #paleontology #treeoflife #morphology #phylogenetics 052
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Next week I’ll be talking about how FAIR data enables open, reproducible paleontology, and how MorphoBank V4 is helping make that possible. If you're thinking about open science, data reuse, or the future of paleontological data, I would love for you to join the conversation. 092
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Thank you! I’m honored to join Historical Biology as Deputy Editor-in-Chief and looking forward to supporting strong, open, and reproducible research across paleobiology. 021
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 05/03/2026I’m excited to see MorphoBank receive a commendation award from SORTEE! 🎉 MorphoBank supports open and FAIR data (images, matrices, and specimen-linked) so research remain transparent, reproducible, and reusable. Open science requires infrastructure - and communities to sustain it. 💚 021
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDSORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 24/02/2026🎉 2025 SORTEE Commendation Award recipients: EcoEvoApps, Flipping the Script, JuliaPhylo, MacaqueNet, MorphoBank, and Virtual Australian Museum of Palaeontology (VAMP)! Congrats to all for advancing open, reliable, & transparent practices in ecology and evolution. 🔗 Learn more at sortee.org/awards/ 02110
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDDryad @datadryad.bsky.social · 06/02/2026For #LoveData26, let's talk #opendata across #schomcomms. Register ▶️ bit.ly/3ZPzj5p 🧪 Join panelists @richardsever.bsky.social of @openrxiv.bsky.social, Jennifer Meyer of @britishecologicalsociety.org, Wei Mun Chan of @elife.bsky.social and @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social of @morphobank.bsky.social 065
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDGraduate Women in Science (GWIS) @gwis-national.bsky.social · 22/10/2025🌟 We're Recruiting Volunteers! 🌟 🙋♀️ We're seeking dedicated volunteers to serve in national leadership and committee roles! 🕒 Most roles involve just a few hours each month. All career stages and backgrounds are welcome. Interested? 👉 lnkd.in/eh4-awHk ❓Contact: president@gwis.org 033
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 17/10/2025In this new episode of #BioScienceTalks, we were joined by members of the #BCoN who discussed the NSF-funded #BIOFAIR project "Integrating biological and environmental data to solve key scientific and societal challenges." bioscience-talks.aibs.org/episodes/bio...bioscience-talks.aibs.orgBioScience Talks | BIOFAIR to Solve Key ChallengesFor this episode, we were joined by members of the Biodiversity Collections Network, who discussed the NSF-funded BIOFAIR project, the subject of a recent Special Report in BioScience entitled, 021
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 16/10/2025The Biodiversity Collections Network (#BCoN), in partnership with #AIBS, has released a new roadmap for developing an integrated biological and environmental data network. #datanetwork #BioFair bcon.aibs.org/2025/10/15/p...bcon.aibs.orgFinal Publication & Podcast Outline BIOFAIR Roadmap for an Integrated Biological and Environmental Data Network – Biodiversity Collections NetworkBiodiversity Collections Network 021
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences @aibsbiology.bsky.social · 15/10/2025🎙️ Just published a new episode of BioScience Talks: BIOFAIR to Solve Key Challenges. Have a listen:share.transistor.fmBIOFAIR to Solve Key ChallengesFor this episode, we were joined by members of the Biodiversity... 011
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDBarbara Class, Ph.D. (she/her) @barbaraclass.bsky.social · 15/10/2025🌍 Join SORTEE – A worldwide Open Science community for ecology and evolution! 🌱🧬 🌐 Join trainings, code clubs & our annual online conference 🚀 Help shape the future of Open Science Membership is inclusive and flexible. 👉 Learn more: www.sortee.org/join/ #OpenScience #Ecology #Evolutionsortee.orgJoinJoin Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary biology (SORTEE) 0159
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDStu Bearhop @stubearhop.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Only a few days to go… please share!!! 01628
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDElham Nourani @enourani.bsky.social · 06/10/2025🦅PhD position 🦅 in my new group at @fbm-unil.bsky.social in Switzerland, studying how the social and resource landscapes shape the learning process for soaring flight. Deadline: Oct 30. Pls repost! career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... 111081
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMike Peacock @peatymike.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Looking for a PhD in aquatic carbon/GHG cycling? Take a look at this fantastic opportunity. Led by @aquaticcarbon.bsky.social and with Amy Pickard, Jens-Arne Subke and me. Field + lab components, and lots of exciting science. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships... 0510
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDChristian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · 15/10/2025#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT 14152
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDDan Chamberlain @danc-eco.bsky.social · 29/09/2025We are seeking an ornithologist/modeller for a 2-year POST-DOC in Turin. Using archaeological remains, we will reconstruct past avian communities to understand the impacts of climate change and human pressure on birds through time. For details see cutt.ly/irN76QDZ PLEASE RT. #ornithology #AviArch 05557
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Opportunity to give a lightning talk on FAIR biological and environmental data! 020
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 02/10/2025🎥 Recordings from MorphoBank Connects are now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@morphobank 050
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDGraduate Women in Science (GWIS) @gwis-national.bsky.social · 02/10/2025GWIS empowers women in science 🌍👩🔬 Why join? ✅ Fellowships & grants (no fees) ✅ Network of 1,000+ scientists ✅ Leadership & mentorship opportunities Open to anyone with a degree (affiliate memberships too!). 👉 Become a member today & help shape the future of science. 🔗 www.gwis.org/page/members... 021
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 25/09/2025GWIS is looking for leadership roles on its committees. Please reach out to me if you are interested! 030
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 23/09/2025📢 Big news: This month MorphoBank surpassed 2,000 project publications! It's been a long journey. Thank you all for taking it with us! #biology #evolutionarybiology #phylogenetics #treeoflife #systematics #cladistics #paleontology #morphobank 052
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 25/09/2025🚀 On Sept 29, NASA’s SciX launches 🎉 Expanding beyond astrophysics into Earth, environmental & space sciences 🌍✨. Proud to be a SciX Ambassador helping share this next step for open science. 🔗 scixplorer.org #SciX #NASA #OpenScience #Geology #Astrobiology 041
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 20/09/2025🏆 Nominations are open for the GWIS Honorary Membership Awards recognizing research excellence, science education, early career, and science communication. 👉 www.gwis.org/page/honorar... 010
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDSORTEE @sortee.bsky.social · 31/07/2025In this installment of the hashtag #ECRAsks series, @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social spoke to @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social about equity, diversity and how scientific research intersects with politics. Check out their conversation on the SORTEE blog: sortee.org/blog/2025/07...sortee.orgECR Asks: Dr. Brooke Long-FoxSORTEE blog 056
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 15/09/2025🦖🐌 🌿 🐝 MorphoBank Connects 2025 – Full Schedule is LIVE! Day 1 – Sept 18 👩🏫 Presentations ⭐ Keynote 💙 Volunteer Recognition Day 2 – Sept 19 🧑💻 Live MorphoBank Workshop 💬 Project Support Office Hours 📘 Program: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... 120
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 12/09/2025GWIS is looking to fill 3 more leadership roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬 010
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDGraduate Women in Science (GWIS) @gwis-national.bsky.social · 12/09/2025🌟 Our first GWIS National Council Meeting of 2025–2026 is this Sunday! Excited to kick off the year with our leaders and welcome new voices into open roles: Editor ✍️, Parliamentarian ⚖️, AAAS Rep 🔬. 💫 #GWIS #Leadership #WomenInSTEM 011
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Which methods are most useful to you? (vote below) 1️⃣ PAUP 2️⃣ TNT 3️⃣ MrBayes 4️⃣ RevBayes 📊 Show results 122
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDbioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 12/07/2025Advancing FAIR Data Management through AI-Assisted Curation of Morphological Data Matrices www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 011
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDThe Society of Systematic Biologists @systbiol.bsky.social · 26/08/2025SSB newsletter highlighting #SSB2026 (January 9-11; Baton Rouge) is out! Miss it? ✅✅ Your member email on our website: www.systbio.org/my-account.h... You can still access the content of the newsletter below:myemail.constantcontact.comAnnouncing SSB 2026Email from Announcing SSB 2026 SSB 2026 Preview Letter from Jeremy Brown Travel Awards for SSB 2025 Diversity Committee Open Seat Registration Now Open for SSB 2026 Registration for the 2026 SSB B 033
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDGraduate Women in Science (GWIS) @gwis-national.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Congratulations to our 2025 Honorary Membership Awardees! This is the highest honor that GWIS bestows, and it recognizes outstanding women scientists. Nominations are welcome and are not limited to GWIS members, so if you know an amazing woman, go to our website today! 041
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Join us Sept. 18 & 19 for the first ever MorphoBank Connects virtual conference! Connect with other researchers, discover new work, and meet the MorphoBank team. 🧪 READ MORE: bit.ly/MorphoConnec... REGISTER: bit.ly/morphobankconnect #evolutionarybiology #paleontology #phylogenetics 063
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 22/08/2025🌐 Join us for MorphoBank Connects 2025! September 18–19 | Free Virtual Conference ✨ Keynote by Dr. Maureen O’Leary ✨ Talks on morphology, FAIR data, and open science ✨ Hands-on workshops & curation office hours 👉 Register Here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 065
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Thank you @sortee.bsky.social and @oakleigh-wilson.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about open science, DEI, and the current challenges facing researchers. Honored to be part of this important conversation. 020
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Abstracts for MorphoBank Connects due this Thursday! It's a free, virtual conference - reach out if you have any questions. 020
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Back from a week on the Kootenai River collecting data for nutrient research. Land use & river management are shifting N & P availability with big impacts on ecosystem function. #Fieldwork #AquaticEcology #WaterQuality 010
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Today we are celebrating the first anniversary of our amazing MorphoBank volunteers! 🎉 Together, they have added hundreds of phylogenetic matrices, engaged in curation sessions, & continued learning through seminars. Here’s to growing our #CitizenScience community & powering research together! 021
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 28/06/2025New Data Note in @historicalbiology.bsky.social featuring a curated morphological matrix of 52 lucinid + 58 shell characters + notes. Supports phylogenetics & host–symbiont systems. 📂 Data: @morphobank.bsky.social Project P4896 dx.doi.org/10.7934/P4896 🔗 Article: doi.org/10.1080/0891...doi.orgA morphological character matrix describing shells from extant and extinct lucinid bivalves of the Western AtlanticMorphological datasets, such as character matrices, are essential for reconstructing phylogenetic relationships and understanding evolutionary trends in organismal form, functional morphology, ecol... 032
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Call for Abstracts: MorphoBank Connects 2025! 🗓 Submission Deadline: July 24, 2025 📨 Acceptance: August 7, 2025 ⏰ 15 min Talk + 5 min Q&A ✍️ Abstract (≤250 words, no refs/images) 🔗 Submit: phoenixbioinformatics.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BACLFg ❓ conference@morphobank.org 041
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Thanks so much for featuring Stewartia floridana @historicalbiology.bsky.social! 🎉 This bivalve holds a special place in my heart - it was the focus of my M.S. thesis. From its first appearance in the Late Pliocene to its survival today along the southeastern U.S. coast. 🔗 doi.org/10.3389/fevo...doi.orgFrontiers | Live and Live-Dead Intraspecific Morphometric Comparisons as Proxies for Seagrass Stability in Conservation PaleobiologyComparisons of life and death assemblages are commonly used to detect environmental change when historical records of live occurrences are unavailable. Most ... 011
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 05/06/2025I’m delighted to serve as Historical Biology’s new Data Editor. As we transition to an Open and FAIR data sharing policy, please feel free to reach out with any questions about your submissions! 051
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Grateful to @advancejournal.bsky.social for the chance to reflect on the lessons from 3 years of building faculty programs and policies that foster equity & inclusion in academia. 🔗 www.advancejournal.org/posts Thank you to all who were part of the journey. #HigherEd #ADVANCE #WomenInSTEM 010
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Check out our new data note (still awaiting peer review) on one of the first published genome sequences 🧬 from a member of the Lucinidae family 🔗 wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/10-... Thanks @jillianmpetersen.bsky.social for including me in this research! 010
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Excited to speak at Oglala Lakota College’s Friday Lunch & Learn on April 25 at 12PM MT! I’ll share about @morphobank.bsky.social, a #FAIR, #Open morphological data repository in evo bio & paleo. 020
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 14/04/2025👩🔬 GWIS is recruiting for 2025–26 National Council positions! #WomenInSTEM #SciLeadership Elected: President-Elect, VP, Secretary Appointed: Treasurer-in-Training, Development Committee 🔗 Join GWIS: www.gwis.org/page/how_to_... 🔗 Apply: www.gwis.org/page/open_po... 000
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 09/04/2025📢 Join us Monday, April 14 at 3 PM Eastern for a talk by Juan Liu at UC Berkeley: 🧬 Integrating Morphology, Genome, and Fossils: A Case Study of Combined Evidence Phylogenetic Analysis 🧬 👉 Interested? Email blongfox@morphobank.org #Phylogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Fossils #MorphoBank 011
Reposted by Brooke Long-Fox, PhDMorphoBank @morphobank.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Join us on April 7 at 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT as Jacqueline S. Silviria presents:Challenges in resolving the 'species-level' phylogeny of the earliest archaic ungulates 🦌 Interested? Email blongfox@morphobank.org for the event link. #Paleontology #Phylogenetics #MorphoBank #Evolution 021
Brooke Long-Fox, PhD @brooke-long-fox.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Save the date for MorphoBank Connects 2025—our first virtual conference on September 18-19! 🎉 It's free and packed with workshops, a hackathon, presentations, and more. Stay tuned for details! #MorphoBankConnects 010
